Type specimens and type localities of birds collected during the Hemprich and Ehrenberg expedition to Lebanon in 1824
Author
Mlíkovský, Jiří
Author
Frahnert, Sylke
text
Zootaxa
2011
2990
1
29
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.278408
7a094bd8-4285-408f-ad78-89681bc13477
1175-5326
278408
Picus syriacus
Hemprich & Ehrenberg
Picus syriacus
Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833
: 37
.
Now.
Dendrocopos syriacus syriacus
(
Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833
)
. See
Hartert (1911: 910)
.
Type
series.
Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833: 37)
did not specify the number of specimens they attributed to their
Picus syriacus
. They supplied only two of these woodpeckers to
ZMB
(
Lichtenstein
1825
, Nr. 5–6, sub
Picus fuliginosus
; see also
Lichtenstein
1854
: 75). These two specimens thus constitute the
type
series of
Picus syriacus
Hemprich & Ehrenberg. Both
are still deposited in
ZMB
.
Syntypes
:
ZMB
10417, 10418, skins, unsexed, collected on an unknown date [=
5–24 July 1824
] in “
Libanon
” [= Bcharré,
Lebanon
].
Type
locality.
Picus syriacus
was described from “Syriae monte
Libano
” (
Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1833
), i.e. Jabal
Lubnān
of
Syria
. The
type
locality was given as “
Syria
” by
Vaurie (1959a: 16)
.
Lichtenstein
(1825)
listed “
Syria
, Bscharri” as the locality. Bcharré lays in Jabal
Lubnān
and can thus be understood as the restricted
type
locality of
Picus syriacus
Hemprich & Ehrenberg
(see also
Stresemann 1954
: 175; 1962: 388;
Vaurie 1965
: 708, who erroneously placed Bcharré in
Syria
). Both
syntypes
were collected at Bcharré during
5–24 July 1824
.
Remarks.
The species is now extinct at its
type
locality (
Tohme & Neuschwander 1974
,
Ramadan-Jaradi & Ramadan-Jaradi 1999
).